TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

From Los Angeles to Silicon Valley , a trend emerged among social media influencers and startup founders alike: move into a mansion with 10 or so collaborators, work day and night together to build fame and wealth, and hope that your new roommates do their dishes. ” Once again, TikTok apologized.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. The best angels will do very well just at the best real estate investors did well in good times and bad. And now everybody is an angel.

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JULY 14, 2017

An Airbnb host has been ordered to pay $5,000, provide a personal apology, and attend a college course in Asian American studies, after the host cancelled an Asian UCLA student's reservation with a racist text. The incident occurred in February of this year.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

Maven continued to operate in Detroit, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. It was an important launch for GM and its Chairman and CEO Mary Barra, who used a study commissioned in the wake of the ignition switch engineering scandal to accelerate her plans to transform the culture and operations at the automaker. and Toronto.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In 2014 , open-source platform Drupal moved to replace “master/slave” with “primary/replica.” . While Los Angeles city officials way back in 2003 asked its manufacturers and suppliers to stop using the terminology, they did not require it. But GitHub is by no means the first company to consider and make these changes.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It’s coming from Leif , itself a startup that provides financing services to edtech platforms so that they can offer their students income share agreements (otherwise known as ISAs, arrangements where students are not required to pay back tuition loans until they find jobs). Entity’s own story fits into both of those story lines.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

- Focus@will , the Los Angeles music startup which says its service can help users improve their concentration and retention while working, said today that it has opened up a public beta of its service. Focus@will's service works with Mac and Windows computers--with iOS and Android apps in the works--as a cross-platform, HTML5 application.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Studies have shown that the practice of meditation positively affects the nervous system by lowering blood pressure, lessening symptoms of anxiety, fighting depression, and curbing insomnia. VR has been studied and used as a tool to relieve stress, PTSD, and other significant health issues. Photo by Guided Meditation VR.

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MAY 12, 2017

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. The way we're doing that, is we are creating video content, which we distribute across social platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Most VCs and Angel investors don’t read unsolicited proposals, unless they have met you first, or have a glowing recommendation from another investor or acquaintance. Major platforms are available online to find Angel groups or VCs, including Gust and AngelList. You need an investor, and want to solicit professionals online.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It's not easy, which is why Los Angeles-based Divercity.io is an HR tech platform that makes it very easy for companies to source diverse talent. is an HR tech platform that makes it very easy for companies to source diverse talent. What's the best way to reach out and recruit diverse candidates for your technology company?

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JUNE 17, 2015

There’s a team of Los Angeles entrepreneurs who would agree with me on that, and they launched their platform Kadenze to help people tap their creativity. Specifically, it was built with the express goal of bringing to life an online learning platform purpose-built for the arts and creative technologies.

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StartUp Beat

JUNE 22, 2018

That’s a large part of why he decided to create LawMaker.io , which bills itself as a revolutionary platform that gives those in the U.S. Touting itself as a “free lobby for the lobbyless,” Thakkar said its a platform that could very much change the face of U.S. ” Lawmaker.io

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JULY 1, 2014

Vadio came out of LA''s Amplify startup accelerator, and now has operations both in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. We tried to figure out why people would go to an audio platform, which might be a iHeartradio, Pandora, or Spotify, and why people would go to platforms like YouTube for music. Both of those were instrumental.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

“We had originally planned to spend more time with in person care and then actually launch our digital platform — telehealth — in 2021. They say they’ve treated “thousands” of women in Los Angeles and have more than 250 referring providers, such as OB-GYNs, at this stage.).

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Our interview this morning is with Brad Stewart , the new CEO of Los Angeles-based Fair (www.fair.com), backed by Softbank, which has been in the midst of reinventing the company after some setbacks in its initial efforts to create a subscription-based model for automobiles. The punchline is, I'm pretty excited about this story.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Liquid Death has attracted nearly $2 million in funding from angel investors like Away co-founder Jen Rubio and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. For one, because millennials, according to various studies, are consuming less alcohol than previous generations and are therefore seeking non-alcoholic beverage alternatives. Founders say yes.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based Sidevision (www.sidevision.com) has developed a set of tools--aimed at content creators, multi-channel networks (MCNs), and others--to help connect online videos with e-commerce. Justin Wu: We integrate with any video platform, such as YouTube, Vimeo, Kaltura, and we''re built on top of an API. How do you do that?

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MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. You've had prior success, and you've been an angel investors in companies here. com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO.

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MAY 16, 2013

A new, Los Angeles startup, Melon , thinks so, and just booted up an effort this week to raise funding for its brainwave-monitoring headband and smartphone app. You can secure it on your head, and use it during exercise, athletics, working in your office, or studying in the library. That was really one of the draws for us.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Our interview today is with Alan Horsager , the CEO of Pasadena-based Episona (www.episona.com), an angel backed startup which has already developed and has been offering up an epigenetic test for male fertility. Alan Horsager: The funding originally started with a convertible note, through the Pasadena Angels.

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MAY 10, 2016

Los Angeles-based Napkin Finance (napkinfinance.com) has figured it out, with a series of very visual, highly engaging �napkins�, which explain, in a graphical way, many of the principles and basics of personal finance. The course initially helps teach students about paying for college, understanding loans, and how to complete their studies.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Freebinar is backed by the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. I immediately was recruited out into another company in webcasting, CTM Marketing Group, building out their platform for them.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

I studied East Asian religions in college and was intrigued to hear that a Buddhist monk was delivering meditation and mindfulness via a mobile app. Rob Freelen is Silicon Valley Bank's Los Angeles Market Manager, where he leads a team of bankers working with a thriving team of early-stage technology companies.

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AUGUST 2, 2013

Yapert raised a funding round a few weeks ago from the Tech Coast Angels, Desert Angeles, and Pasadena Angels for its mobile apps, which consolidates news and information about your favorite interests. We really started to study the current generation of smartphones and what people do with them.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Most VCs and Angel investors don’t read unsolicited proposals, unless they have met you first, or have a glowing recommendation from another investor or acquaintance. Major platforms are available online to find Angel groups or VCs, including Gust and AngelList. You need an investor, and want to solicit professionals online.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

To help them with that, Los Angeles- and San Diego-based Tillster (www.tillster.com), which until recently was known as EMN8, has been developing a wide range of technology in the area. It was founded by Paul Sidlo, who is from Los Angeles, and it''s very much a Southern California company. Our platform encompasses several things.

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APRIL 3, 2012

We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. Michael Witz: We've been building smaller, lightweight games on the Facebook platform since early 2008. That's a really critical piece.

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JULY 24, 2017

There's a new Michigan State University study that came out earlier this year, which says that in only five years, a third of the U.S. WeMo is a consumer friendly, connected home, Internet-of-Things solution and platform that we developed, to control light switches, connected outlets, plugs where you can monitor your energy, and schedule.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

Both companies were in Los Angeles. They were mostly a B2B platform enabling game publishers to deliver via Internet streaming their traditional games built for game consoles. 30:30 Mike Jones is one of the five most prolific angel investors in southern California. Not bad, hey?

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APRIL 15, 2019

Wheels currently operates in Los Angeles and San Diego. Josh Viner: Wheels is live in Los Angeles and San Diego. One in three riders on our platform are over the age of 35, and many people who wouldn't try a scooter are enjoying our device. What is Wheels? That makes for a better experience on terrain that isn't perfectly flat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

Most VCs and Angel investors don’t read unsolicited proposals, unless they have met you first, or have a glowing recommendation from another investor or acquaintance. Major platforms are available online to find Angel groups or VCs, including Gust and AngelList. You need an investor, and want a document to mass-mail to everyone.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. In the case of Los Angeles-based Laffster (www.laffster.com), you apply software algorithms, science, and research to figure it all out. Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. In terms of where we offer to our customers, we have 250 different areas, from early childhood to studying for an MCAT or the bar.

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MARCH 25, 2016

In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. No platform is naïve enough to allow an outsider to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without an appropriate tax or benefit to them. Study your history.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

David Baird: I've been a musician since I was five, studying classical piano, and evolved into guitar like so many other people. We're pretty much in every major market, particularly in music strong communities, like Los Angeles, New york, Nashville, and Toronto. What's your background and how did you get into this? and Canada.

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